Well for one I wouldn't get Foxconn. I would go with DFI or ASUS if you're gonna be overclocking. 790GX is just a 790FX with onboard video and is a little weaker but I would rather have a good 790GX because they are cheaper.

Wow I feel dumb now, please don't vote me out of the club for my extreme level of dumbness haha.

Anyway Phenom II 920

Highest clock 3.71Ghz @1.472v (stock cooler)
Current stable clock 3.5Ghz @ 1.456v (the voltage can be lowered but haven't worked it yet)
Just for fun/curiosity clock 3.3Ghz using 372Mhz HT Bus speed (makes it to windows even with 10*372 but I need more volts to get it stable).

I use only air cooling and finally put my Xigmatek HDT S-1283 back on after testing only with the stock heatsink/fan combo. All is pretty much awesome so far.

Kei

P.S. (very late)

@ servermonkey

In order to get the memory sticks to run at 1150Mhz you have to overclock them using whatever way you want to. AMD only officially supports 1066Mhz on a Phenom so everything over that is an overclock. These chips just come officially overclockable by Patriot to the speed of 1150Mhz thus they're advertised that way. All of the manufacturers do that when it comes to speeds like that.

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so your patriot sticks are 1066 that will do 1150?
i have a pair of ddr2-1200s that will not boot for the life of me. I have tried oem settings and tried to set the oc on them to 1200 before i changed them out....but still no boot...might have to sell them off to some intel dude....

Well my system is out for a while.(Kinda) Well early this morning my new Cooler Master Storm Sniper case came in today and it is for my PII case and my HAF is housing my older rig. Well before I left to go to my grandparents I was removing everything the fan broke. So I am RMAing my 4850X2 and then selling it and then buying 2 4870's. So now I am having to use my 9600GT in my PII rig. Its sucks so bad.

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So your 4850x2 fan broke? How was it working out for you before it broke? What drivers were you using?

Vdroop is the decrease between what you set your cpu voltage at in the bios, and what your actual voltage is, particularly under heavy load. This can have a significant negative impact on the stability of an OC.

fyi
for those who might be m/b shopping, the m4a79 dlx is on newegg........from the pics it looks like they changed some of the sata connectors, changed the n/b heat sink, changed the mosfet heat sink. the info on their website also says that they this board has "turbov" and "turbov".....

I'm looking for some advice - got my Mk2 940 BE and am bit concerned that some one else may have had their hands on it before me - there was a dark mark on the surface of the chip, kinda looking like some one had put a cooler on without applying grease properly and also there is a machining/grinding mark round the side edges of the cpu. It also runs at 59 deg C when stress testing with Everest (stock cooler). These temps seem really high for a chip that was supposed to run a shed load cooler than the previous revision.
So question is -is this a dodgy chip - should I RMA it or is this normal for these bad boys..?
Thanks for you advice

I got it from Ebuyer.com, the box was sealed still but it just seems like it's been finished really badly..
Also getting 59deg core temps when running everest stress test at stock speed seems awfull high for this new 'cooler running' edition..

ok, its been a while since ive overclocked, had the 9950 be to 3.4ghz once completely stable and water cooled with low volts and temps. just bought a new phenom II 940 and i forgot how to get the HT link over 2000mhz (showing 1890 right now) any help?